does smoking affect the breast milk of nursing mothers?

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when my daughter was in the nicu the dr told me to only have one smoke as soon as i was done feeding as the baby will get the toxins but if you do it as soon as youre done feeding the next batch of milk wont have as much yuck in it.

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